Question

In python, the following instruction: print 'a'*5 would output aaaaa. How would one write something similar in C++ in conjunction with std::ostreams in order to avoid a for construct?

Answer 1

The obvious way would be with fill_n:

std::fill_n(std::ostream_iterator<char>(std::cout), 5, 'a');

Another possibility would be be to just construct a string:

std::cout << std::string(5, 'a');